Divide & Conquer (V4.5): Faction Overview - Rhûn 

Kervan saray is Persian for caravan palace. They used to build these throughout the silk road for the merchants. Basically a luxury middle age rest area.

"You will basically run around collecting dragon relics." *Dovahkiin wants to know your location*

honestly the most difficult part of this faction is getting to the southern most parts without Mordor taking them first.

I feel Galu should have talked about the Khand script when they choose to go loyal. I got bodied by 2 Khandish banner armies when all my troops were busy with Dorwinion, Dale and Erebor. Also: THE SOLDIERS FROM RHÛN HAVE JUST ARRIVED!

Heck yes! I started a game of Rhun not a couple weeks back and was curious about the Dragon Artifacts, so glad to see this update to the Faction Overview since 2.0

im love the look and feel of this faction but im struggling with the unit diversity... trying to make a golden army of pikes

Hey when i heard you talking about far harad mercenaries, i got an idea, ive been playing for years now on a LOTR minecraft modded server, and they have added far harad factions, called the taurethrim and the morwaith, besides the half trolls that is. "Once a mighty empire that held all of Far Harad under its sway, the Taurethrim are but a shadow of their former selves. They dwell in the Far Harad Jungle, defending their homes from their sworn enemies, the Morwaith. In battle they wield deadly obsidian blades, and their hunters carry blowguns and poisoned darts." in other words theyre like native south americans. "Though their crafts and way of life may seem primitive to the Men of the North, the Morwaith lead complex lives. Their chieftains are many, separated by great distance and divided by cultural differences. They have many strange rituals and traditions, including the ritual slaying of wild animals. They are strong warriors in battle, sometimes riding on zebras against their enemies, and wielding spears, clubs, axes, and daggers." The morwaith are more like native north americans but with more similarities to the tauretrim in general due to living in close proximity to each other. Maybe a fun idea is to implement a far harad mercenary that are dark skinned blowgun soldiers that fire poisoned darts and use a small shield and a obsidian blade or axe in melee. making them a decent mid tier unit. Its just an idea though.

My favourite faction. Take Mattaram first. You win :)

"NOT to be pronounced rhûn ... but im not gonna tell you Not too" 😂

Khand and the Haradrim should start in a single settlement like Rhun and the challenge of all three campaigns should be to unite all of the tribes into one grand army of the east.

Wonder if possible for next update to give Loke Khan Rhukar could have his own unique unit. Maybe not chariots as you said they are over powered but what about the Udege marines but maybe with a upgraded look of the elites and also better stats

Beautiful designs

Hi Galu! If you’ve got a moment, I would love to know something about the statistics used in DAC. Does it use the same system as original TATW? Taking the Snaga Stalkers as an example, in TATW they have a defence of 5, but in DAC it is only 2. At the other end of the spectrum, in TATW the strongest unit is the Guards of Khazad-Dum, with a defence of 26, whereas in DAC, an elite unit such as the Smiths of Eregion have a defence of 42. Does this mean that in DAC, the worst units are worse and the best units are better? Or is it a different system, where a 5 in TATW equates to a 2 in DAC? Not a very important question, but still it’s been bugging me for ages 😂 Also, sorry if I’ve used too many commas.

Rhun is the Golden Horde

I am so sad to see that Rhun lost their flamethrowers.

8:30. I know why! It's old code from Rome 1 total war. See, in Rome 1 the building was available only to Parthia and Armenia. These were both naturally poor nations (no sea trade, and only tier 1 roads, and few/poor resources in their territory). However they were the far east factions, the maps last stop on the silk road to India/china. So the unique buildings were to represent them pulling in these rare valuable resources.

The Loke Scion Rim has a really high replenishment rate in my 4.5 campaign, I seem to be able to recruit them pretty much every turn nonstop. Perhaps it's intentional?

Abdüs "died tragically" in 2984 according to my family tree :( i never even got a message that he died (or came of age) anyone know why this happened? (personally I blame Dale and when the time is right, Mordor)

Would be awesome if you could recruit dragons as mercenaries in Withered Heath

The voice is quite silent.

What I really don't like about some of your faction overviews is that you tend to speculate what the enemy Ai does or how difficult the faction is even though you clearly never played that faction. First of all Rhun is nowhere near a 1 in difficulty. It may have been before but now it is more of a 4. Having to conquer all of your lands from rebels with hugh garrisons takes dozens of turns and will put you in massive debt. You have to beat Mordor, Dale and Dorwinion to it since they will grab those regions if you are not quick enough. Dorwinion and Dale will relativly quickly move huge stacks through your lands while you are still trying to conquer your regions and pay your debt back to able to actually build/train anything. And Erebor will also attack you really early. It will take up to 50 turns to reach a somewhat stable position from where you start building up your economy. Imo that reunification script is super annoying. Having to spend a couple of hours racing with the AI to capture your settlements while praying that they won't attack in the first 40 turns or you will have to start over.

It seems to me as you've made the rhuns relatively weak, which is a shame as they are in my opinion the coolest faction in Middle Earth. Also their armour isn't golden in the movie.....................

Wow, no views. Sorry Galu, guess people really don't like Rhun

The purpose of chariots is to wipe out enemy cav, they're amazing at it. Most cavalry in the game will get steamrolled by the chariots Rhun has.

Can we see the top ten spear and shields list.

STAND... MEN OF THE EAST!!!

The DCI last alliance water does in fact look much better.

Far-rhûn mercs look great. This is still one of the best looking factions in the game. And I say as someone who is biased toward the elves and dunedain

Yay, finally a new rhun after like 2 years

It's funny, you talk about how Rhun isn't really a nation of warriors but at 36:52 you can clearly see the description of the Dragon's Wrath Guildsmen how Rhun is a nation of warriors. A little dissonant haha.

Man the first thing as ruhn is to rush each army to the two southern khandish towns. They are huge money makers, and in a defensive battle your starting armies can take the garrisons without too much issue, plus it spawns the khandish general with units. Lest is usually the last place i take as dorwinion will bash their heads against its garrison for me and delay their taking of the rest of rhovannion

Great video! Rhun is the most stylish evil faction by far. How about giving the Rhunic and Khandish elite chariots skirmish mode, or is that not possible because they count as elephants. Given the fact that they are at their best as ranged units against infantry that would make micromanaging them a lot easier. Javelins, the few AP archers and crossbows would still make them drop like flies, so I don't think they'd become that op.

30:20 "In 4.5, mercenaries are broken, but they work well in v5." - great to hear, 2 years later with no version 5 out

I've been waiting for this one for ages! Awesome. Now is the time for my Rhûn campaign. I fell in love with them when I set up a custom battle with their entire roster. A golden torrent of rage and flame. Your content is amazing, as is the mod. There is really nothing like it. Massive respect to you and the rest of the team!

16:30 Me playing as rhun and being attacked by a dale-stack every 4 turns. Dale having one of the hardest to deal bodyguards units (ranged and anti cav). Dale having heavy halberds and good armored second tier units, dale having no other enemy than rhun (as long they dont border mirkwood). Erebor started to send full stacks after turn 35. Dorwinion was much easier to deal with bc theiy are near the recruitment centers of rhun and after you have taken sant annui they are done for. If it wasnt for dale the 1 would be justified. Well, I still have beaten the crap out of dale. But I also over 1000 in med2tw so...

It would be cool if Rhun gets some of the easterling units by conquering Dol Guldor .

Honestly I’m glad that the faction leader no longer comes on a chariot; in my experience, he was always the first in his unit to die, and did so with worrying frequency even when targeted by weak archers

I see you do this in every faction difficulty rating : x faction will not attack you because its at war with y and they keep their attention etc. Its always the case that if a faction is your enemy and its bordering you it will fuck you up as much as it can, it will even get out of its way and do stupid things to attack you. I have legit seen first hand, Gondor while i was playing with Isengard come from the rear while transpassing their enemies enedwaith territory just to attack me and we were neutral! Or Goblins attacking me as bree and we werent even shared a border, while they had only misty mountain regions and ost-in-edhil What i mean is that argument is not valid at all and you shouldnt use it to make a faction seem easier. Rhun is actually quite harder than you believe it is, and not for the reasons someone new will think. VH/VH (no cheats, NO CHEATS) you struggle to get to some regions before AI does including Mordor taking your script regions, Dorwinion expading like crazy, and you having the constant threat of weird ass Dale bringing a stack or two right next you your borders without declaring war but forcing you to keep a backup army just in case them or Erebor do the first move. You are usually way too stretched with Rhun and the general lack of Castles in their regions is something that isnt helping at all. Not to mention that if Khand turns good they will legit send their 2 doomstacks straight for Mattaram casually forgeting their capital was just sacked. Even mordor from time to time likes to attack you. Rhun is easily a 3 (coming from a seasoned veteran), and even rushing your "main" enemy Dorwinion is not a guaranted park walk afterwards like with other nations. Ive won GOOD Khand campaigns easier than i did with rhun, ive destroyed AA with Dol Amroth turn 8 and killed harad before barracks events just to give some examples, but still Rhun is giving me a headache every time i play. The unpredictability of the nearby and bordering factions is what makes it harder that it seems.

The opening text for Rhun has a spelling mistake instead of Their skirmishing skills it says They're. Also it feels odd to start the game and have CK2 music blasting lol

Have you thought about splitting Blue wizards between Rhun and Khand? One for each

I’m in the middle of my rhun campaign and I basically got saved by Mordor 😂. I wasn’t losing any of my territory I just was very outnumbered by dorwinion who swallowed up all of rhovanion so they had roughly 10 or 11 settlements at their peak and I at the time had 5. However Mordor also kinda took all my land so know I’m wondering if I’m going to be able to reach my territory requirements. It’s been a fun campaign tho!

Is it just me, or is the audio really quiet for this video? Probably because of the changes to the mircophone. You might want to increase the volume a bit for the next video :)

In my opinion all the Elite units need recoloring, unless the Mod team thinks Rhun was shitting gold bricks and they made all their armor full of gold. The ones that were shown in the movie marching to the Black Gate had a darker bronze metallic brown color and not this shiny bright gold.

Galu i think you forgot the variag nobels they get from the khandish roster, they are really good too and should be used carefully also love Rhun's armor color and looks overall so majestic, stay safe my friend

Isn't Khand a nomadic culture or am i getting it wrong?

Most of the time when I start a new Rhun save , I get into a rumble with Dale before Dorwinion .

But how did the men of Rhun survive being stomped by Rhovanion at the end of the second age? :O

So what is Rhun based on? Dorwinion is Saxon?? Khand is Mongolian or Rus, Harad is North African it seems, Umbar is... I don’t even know, and Rhûn? Japan or Persia or what?

Does anyone know if you can get 2nd tier and up Khand units as Rhun? I saw in custom battles you can use them when you set the time period to ‘All’ just wondering if you can get them in the campaign too after to conquer Khand or something like that :)

U just giving every faction 1 or 2 in difficulty. MedTW-2 is generally not hard I agree but D&C is not easy at all, you have increased the difficulty. So when you play VH/VH(which mostly we do); Rhun is not "1" in difficulty. I think difficulty needs to be ranged from 1to5 relative to faction in the game. Otherwise many faction is only "1" and there is no "5". IMHO only Ered Luin and Khan is "1" in difficulty and Dol Amroth is "5" for example.

Udege Marine's are looking pretty fly. As is all of Rhun's roster to be honest.

I miss the times when Loke Gamp Rim had halberds like in film

Rohan! Yay! Love those horsemasters, although they are steamrollered in literally every campaign I play :D. Not sure what people are complaining about with the microphone, it sounds absolutely fine. Perhaps it's a problem at their end?

The general model is made for cavalry (cape is bended to fit the horse) looks a bit weird during battles

Thanks for an informative video! Is there a chance you will explain the Dragon Cult in the Rhun lore video?

Please add Lord of,Master of,Mayor of,Warden of etc. titles for all settlements like SS , it gaves much more enthusiasm when playing.For example one of my Lindon campaign,Imladris has fallen and I captured it with my heir but he didnot claim "lord of imladris" title. That was discouraging.

beware Khand's Blue Wizard stacks.

Wow, I'm early today

thanks, just listening to your voice removes all stress. not sure what that is :)

i dont understand why general bodyguards are not cavalry

Hello Arachir, I was was wanting to jump back into DaC but overall I seem to have one and only one problem with it, as I remember. I want there to be brutal difficulty, against the odds invasions, really large battles and challenging economy management. I want to face overwhelming stacks of the enemy and fight on the very brink of annihilation. Can I find that in DaC lategame? I always seemed to stop playing at some point thinking my expectations in that regard would not be met. Playing with the Dunedain, I always found I could annihilate anything with my rangers quite easily, but then again I never got far enough. Otherwise this is a stunning work of art that brings to life Middle Earth on the campaign map. I had always appreciated it deeply. Can somebody reassure me or let me in on how the lategame is? Thank you.

Why do we triple the damage for pikes?

What is the lore behind the daritaï clansmen ?

Just going to say, Rhun may be a 1 normally, but I really feel like it spikes up to around a 3 or 4 minimum if Khand goes with the Blue Wizards. After that, not only did I suddenly have to worry about that border being filled with Dwarves w/ Horse Archers, Erebor and Dale started picking at my borders, Mordor was broken by Gondor because their backline was devastated by Khand, Harad got crippled as well, and I still had Dorwinion to deal with. Rohan has been patrolling the borders too. I was left single handedly trying to fight everyone in the West, plus Gondor.

I really like this mod and I'd love to play it Hotseat with some friends, but it doesnt work. After the first turn a random battle appears between and the cursor becomes the loading ring. Can you help me out? Have you heard of this issue? We would be so extremly thankful for any help!

love this mod but fighting every single Elvish card to the death is getting old fast. I just charged maybe 60 archers with about 95 Loke Innas Rim and it was one of the most absurd unit interactions I've ever seen in a TW game. half of them were killed. half. against understrength archers in melee. "one of the best cavalry units in the game." No. Just... no.

Do sth with Khand they are not doing anything when played by AI, just amassing forces near capital.

Can you give the loke-gamp rim the halberd-pike mixed with shields in hand instead of have just the pike, reason being it will look awesome, look at lotr bfme 2 rotwk age of the ring mod and look at the upgraded easterling phalanx.

Do merchants work the same in DaC as they do in the base game? As Dale, I've put a merchant over an iron mine (that for some reason is worth 3x as much as a gold mine) and it's been about 10 turns but nothing is listed yet under merchant trade in my financial report. Is it listed somewhere else, or do I need to do something different with the merchant?

Big shoutout to the modders for Third Age Total War for the job they did on Rhun. Rhun's roster has barely changed for DAC.

I wish the Easterlings had more interesting units the lack of shields and halberds is kind of annoying to me i hate the dual wielding swordsmen cuz its cringe and doesnt really suit rhun to have some assassins with two blades instead of giving them swords and shields and halberds for those beautiful golden spiked armor sets they love to wear

The Daritai Crossbows are a really good early unit by the looks of it, with the 6 missile attack.

Huh, the unify tribes thing is a lot like the Welsh script in the Britain campaign. Free armies and troops after conquering certain regions.

Hey galu, i was playing the Rhunnic campaign on version 4.5 and i noticed something odd. The Lôke-scion Rim had a replenishing time of 2 turns at every city or castle but Sant Annui. I don't know of others might have the same expercience, but i though you should know! Love the vids!! Keep up the great work! After 2 years of playing it, it still can't bore me!!

Anyone else having a really hard time playing Rhun? I keep finding myself stretched too thin to defend anything properly with Dale, Erebor, and Dorwinion pushing my north and western flanks, and Khand sending stacks from the south. How are you supposed to defend against that? None of them will even bother with diplomacy no matter what I offer them either. Maybe I'm just super unlucky, but 9/10 of my playthrough attempts as Rhun, Khand sides with good and sends doomstacks straight up to me. Dale builds up 2 stacks right on my border to the north and attacks the same turn that Dorwinion does, and Erebor keeps sending units throughout all of this. Dale, Dorwinion, and Erebor tend to not have any other enemies other than me so it's just a constant barrage of fullstacks destroying everything I have.

Those Far Rhun Mercenaries remind me a lot of the Variags from Last Days of the Third Age of Middle Earth.

I haven't watched whole episode yet but I do really hope Lothlorien is gonna be next since the last overview of it was for v2.2 :(

Okay, I have to ask: why did you change the film-style halberds to spears? Seems such an unnecessary (and disappointing) design choice.

Oh wow celeborns unit looks almost as good as elronds unit but double the size

I'm in the middle of Rhun campaign, and my Arulad general spawned with the Dragonguard (inf) as bodyguard, instead of Dragonriders (cav).

Helo from Brazil my friend now i know what faction has a Brazilian theme

Do you make every faction review for each version or patch update?

Chariots are, in practice, most useful as anti-cav units.

How many factions left?

The audio sounds great galu, def an improvement!

the barrack event should be removed, it makes slows the game and kinda boring beacuse you can't get a new units in a very long time.

Seriously, are any factions a 5 difficulty-wise?

Hey Galu. Merchants dont work. At least for me it didnt work. Send him to ALL resources and everyone gives 0 gold. 0 gold bro. Even looked at the mitrhill and it still didnt do shit. Can u please see this and know that merchant didnt work for me?

Just looked at the top 10 cavalry video, on the By Jove Innas Rim, they were number 9. and you said" by joe are they poorer then i thought"

my favorite faction

Do lothlorien please

top 10 guardian unit

This game is impossible, man. I mean, I love it. But it seriously is impossible. Was playing with Woodland Realm at mid (!) difficulty and got my ass kicked. Isengard got so OP in such little time, then I typed in some cheats and then Mordor called invasion on me and now every Orc faction wants to kill me. So I typed more cheats to get units. I am literally adding units to top before every single fight and Isengard still somehow has more army and more money than me, lol. Dark Souls is piss easy compared to this.

Khand has a nomad culture galu, right ?

Lindybeige has a video on the practical use of fire arrows.

Hey Galu, Could you do a Rhun gameplay? I fear that you underestimate the difficulty of the Rhun Campaign.

I am disappointed about the dragon relics I would appreciate a Dragons General - Or Dragon Units // Young Dragons - Plate Dragon

Really like the roster and the new scripts but unfortunately the campaign is such a dodle because (like Galu rightfully said) you really have no real enemies after Dorwinion. Does anyone have any ideas to spice up their campaign?